Berlin: 'Spermbots' to aid fertility treatments

Scientists have developed motorised 'spermbots' by attaching tiny metal helices to sperm cells that can aid poor swimmers to reach an egg, an advance that could improve fertility treatments.January 15, 2016, 09:29 IST

Researchers constructed tiny metal helices just large enough to fit around the tail of a sperm. Their movements can be controlled by a rotating magnetic field. Tests showed that the motors can be directed to slip around a sperm cell, drive it to an egg for potential fertilisation and then release it. PTI

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